Santos ends Chicago’s skid

Matt Nagy still has a job and perhaps his team has a shot to salvage its season.

Cairo Santos made a 28-yard game-ending field goal to give the slumping Chicago Bears a 16-14 victory over the winless Detroit Lions on Thursday.

The Bears, now 4-7, ended a fivegame losing skid under Nagy, who was answering questions about his job status less than 48 hours before kickoff. Nagy said Bears chair George McCaskey told the team on Wednesday that a Patch.com report that the fourth-year coach was told he will no longer coach after the game in Detroit was not accurate.

“We’ve been through some stuff, some distractions, the last couple days,” Nagy acknowledged. “But it just proves who they are, what type of fighters they are, what type of winners they are.”

Meanwhile, the 0-10-1 Lions showed no one in the NFL comes up short quite as they do.

“First, you have to learn how not to lose,” said Detroit quarterback Jared Goff, who returned from a one-game absence because of an oblique injury.

Detroit made many mistakes, early and late, and is now winless in 15 games since beating the Bears on the road nearly a year ago. The Lions had 10 penalties, including three in a row when they were at midfield that ended a chance to score on their last possession.

“Having second-and-25 or thirdand-32 definitely shrinks your playbook,” first-year coach Dan Campbell lamented.

Chicago won three of its last four games last season to rally into the expanded post-season field after losing six straight games.

“This week was an important week to believe in each other,” said Santos, whose second field goal before halftime gave the Bears a 13-7 lead. “And hope to catch fire again.”